I go through most of my days feeling optimistic about the world. It comes from speaking to and reading from people that are like minded- for every Pelosi we have a Steyn, for every Thomas Freedman a Krauthammer. Well, maybe these days its for every 10 Pelosi’s a Steyn in the US, and for every 10,000 Freedman’s a Krauthammer in the world, but at least there are a few out there.
But then there are those news reports that just keep on depressing –
First, Halkin on Israel today:
Meanwhile, the rockets keep falling from Gaza; every Israeli military action there further harms its standing in the world; Hamas slowly gains in its fight for international acceptance; radical Islam grows stronger nearly everywhere; the potential gains of last summer's war in Lebanon have been squandered; Iran goes on building the bomb; and Israelis, for the first time in their history, see no conceivable light, not even an imaginary will-o'- the-wisp, at the end of the tunnel.
Great.
And the UN keeps condemning Israel, anti-Semitism is on the rise even in New York, and even with our previous enemy, 18 percent of Germans believe Jews have too much influence in the country.
Well, I’m trying to stay optimistic, but I just wish more people would see the threats in the world and fight to do something about it, rather then toe the easy “Jews fault” line we have been hearing for over three thousand years.